Eleven days left in Savannah. I've already got eight packing boxes stuffed to the brim, and that's not including clothes, shoes, toiletries and other personal items ( Read more... )

The date is set for my departure from Savannah. June 22nd. If all goes well I'll reach Arizona by the 24th or twenty-fifth ( Read more... )

Savannah has a huge gay community -- it also has a huge Irish community, which makes me wonder how often the two overlap -- and every year since 2000 a Pride festival's been held downtown. I attended once about six years ago when a friend's roommate invited me to tag along with him. It was a really great experience with cool vendors (can you say " ( Read more... )

I feel like death warmed over. The right half of my body aches, and the gland in my neck is so swollen that it feels hard. It's not a toomah. Or perhaps it is. I haven't had a cigarette in 3 or four weeks, but does anyone wanna take bets on whether or not I've got throat cancer? Then I remember Denis Leary's bit about tracheotomies and smile ( Read more... )

St. Patrick's Day is such a huge deal in Savannah. It always slips my attention because I rarely go downtown, but a big group of us went barhopping Saturday night and it was a lot of fun. Got toasted, watched people booty dance to bagpipers in one of the squares and had a bite of the second most delicious burger in the world. Tomorrow is the ( Read more... )

Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis to marry on Tybee Island next month. I live twenty minutes away and all I can think about is what a nightmare traffic's gonna be. Congratulations to them, though ( Read more... )

One thing that I've always been passionate about and don't spend nearly enough time discussing is my utter fascination with ghosts and hauntings. I have numerous books on the subject and used to spend hours researching old mental institutions and abandoned castles online, marking which ones gave me the all-over shivers that I would love to visit ( Read more... )